Www. Health. Senate. Gov is our website. I think it makes it possible for us to be table to attract witnesses who have very busy schedules on the same day such as today. Some senators are participating by videoconference. Senators may remove their masks since were 6 feet apart. Im grateful to the rules committee, the sarge want at arms, the press gallery, the capitol police, our Committee Staff for all their hard work to help keep us safe. Senator murray and i will each have an opening statement, and then well turn to our witnesses who we thank very much for being with us today. Each witness we would ask that you summarize your remarks in five minutes, which will allow more time for the large number of senators who we expect to participate to present their testimony. Well have one round of questions for a five minute round. Less than four months ago on march 1st the coronavirus situation was about this. At the end of february there were 79,000 cases around the world, only 14 in the Uni
The other sectors such as tech and health care. The stayathome sectors turn into the new defense, calling into question the rally. We have haven assets rallying in a significant way. Dollaryen down more than 1 . The 10 year yield reversing. It had been a sixday backup. Now 10 year yields is trading lower. That tells you there is a move into bonds. If you start to see haven assets rally, especially on the back of a strong move up, you wonder what are traders looking at. Are they just treading water waiting to see how this resolved or is it a talent on something that is about a flareup, which is u. S. China relations not liking the cyclical rally, maybe it has gone too far, too fast. There is questioning around the payrolls report on friday. David a lot of indicators pointing in different directions. What about the yield curve . There is a lot of information about the yield curve that is deepened. What does that tell us about what is coming down the road . Abigail the last time i looked
Those restaurants that is still doing Something Special in spite of everything going on today theyre going to be offering a special mothers day brunch take out that starting at 07 00am so you can place in your order and come down here and pick it up. Now many of us are used to taking mom and grandma out from others david since that is not an option for many of us this year we can still do something very nice for them and restaurants throughout the bay area are going to be opening up their doors for takeout so families can still treat mom and grandma. Now its still fairly early but were going to be talking with families as the morning goes on to find out how theyre celebrating in spite of everything on this mothers day. Now reporting in walnut creek Reyna Harvey Kron 4 news. And the rain while the coronavirus pandemic has hit a new milestone with more than 4 million positive cases worldwide. Here in the u. S. Were looking at 1. 3 million cases in growing. Federal officials are looking a
The capacity to detect coronavirus spreading could be the key to opening the country, but the white house and the states are clashing on if there are enough tests to go around. The governors are responsible for testing and i hope they will use the tremendous amount of capacity that we have. President trump says hes putting safety first, but critics say millions of people need to be tested before the nation can truly get back to work tick thank you for joining us tonight, im andre senior. Im Cristina Rendon on peer california has been fortunate to have fewer cases on a lower death count and smaller states. Still, the humans will hear continues to grow peer governor gavin newsom said today the 95 people died in the last 24 hour period. Also today, california sadly surpassed 1000 deaths. There are nearly 6000 confirmed cases of the coronavirus in the bay area and 196 people have died locally. Six bay area counties are now requiring people to work Face Coverings while out in public. The ru
Home order saying that students could return to their classrooms as soon as this july. Good evening and thank you so much for joining us here on kron 4 news at 5 im justine waltman now no official decision has been made on schools but newsome says an earlier school year maybe need to make up for the learning loss and brain drain that took over when schools closed in midmarch this is just one of many steps the state of california will take to reopen its economy. State Health Officials say will happen in 4 different stages. Our Capitol Bureau reporter Ashley Zavala explains. We believe we do have a framework that we can achieve and we can achieve together under the current stay at home order california is currently in phase. One state Health Officials say california will move into stage 2 in a matter of weeks allowing employees in occupations that low risk of spreading covid19 with physical distancing to go back to work like retail and manufacturers the state will also begin opening up p